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Davidsfonds 2014. Paperback, 207 pag. NL, 250 x 190 mm, in goede staat, veel info en foto's / illustr.in zachte kleuren / z/w. ISBN 9789059085428. Boeken en studies over de Grote Oorlog richten hun blik meestal op de Westhoek en de loopgravenoorlog die daar jarenlang woedde. Maar hoe werd de Eerste Wereldoorlog beleefd in de rest van het land? Dit boek gaat dieper in op het dagelijkse leven tijdens WOI in het bezette gebied. Het focust op de situatie in het Land van Dendermonde, die bij uitbreiding ook gold voor de rest van Vlaanderen. Lees over de chaos van de mobilisatie en de strakke regelgeving van de Duitse bezetter. Op welke manieren verzette de bevolking zich tegen de Duitsers? Waar vonden mensen hoop en geluk in die angstige oorlogstijd? Ontdek hoe de martelaarsstad Dendermonde ingezet werd in de oorlogspropaganda en hoe de wederopbouw verliep na het einde van de oorlog. Aan de hand van zes tegenstellingen - orde en chaos, voor en tegen, angst en hoop, goed en slecht, binnen en buiten, toekomst en verleden - wordt het verhaal van de oorlog in bezet Vlaanderen op een veelzijdige, vernieuwende en genuanceerde manier gebracht. 'Tegen-strijd' vervalt daarmee niet in het stereotiepe zwart-wit denken over WOI , maar laat alle facetten van de Grote Oorlog uitgebreid aan bod komen., Davidsfonds 2014, 0, magazine, minor creases,VG-. Soft Cover., 0, New York: Silver Whistle, 1997. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. This book looks almost new. The interior is crisp and clean, with no marks or signs of use. The illustrated covers are bright, with just a hint of wear at the tips. The dust jacket is not price-clipped, and is also in excellent conditionr. A very nice copy. The jacket is now in a protective mylar cover. Synopsis: A picture book about basketball -- how it feels to roll the ball in our hands. The soaring freedom of the dunker. The fingertip tap. The high, arching moment when all eyes are on the long three-pointer ... " all illustrated by Caldecott Honor artist Stephen T. Johnson., Silver Whistle, 1997, 4, It Books, 1996. trade paperbac. used: good. 84x11x128. Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE NEW boxes Films, Cinema; GOod trade paperback; sticker back cover; tips/edges bumped; crease to cover; spine heal nicked; tanned page edges; clean pages; prompt shipping with tracking., It Books, 1996, 2.5, Dodd, Mead & Co, 1930-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. Dodd, Mead & Company; New York, 1930. Hardcover. A Very Good, tan binding with paper title label on spine, binding intact, bit of sunning to spine, dent bottom front and rear board edge, crease bottom corner Part 1 prelim, some age toning to text block edges and pages, small scuff mark bottom text block edge, top text block edge stained brown, without Dust wrapper. A nice, clean and unmarked copy. 8vo[octavo or approx. 6 x 9], 178pp., indexed, b&w illustrations. We pack securely and ship daily with delivery confirmation on every book. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale. Additional Scan(s) are available for any item, please inquire., Dodd, Mead & Co, 1930-01-01, 3, Atlanta, GA: Turner Publishing, Inc, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Companion book to the film of the same name that followed two high school students in Chicago who dream of being NBA stars. Introduction by Charles Barkley. A very near fine copy in a very near fine dust jacket. Signed and inscribed by Joravsky on the half title page., Turner Publishing, Inc, 1995, 0, New York: BasicBooks, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good +. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. 9 1/2" X 7 1/2". xxiv, 632pp. Light rubbing and creasing to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. LIght rubbing and toning to covers and edges of blue paper over boards. Lean to spine. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Inked gift inscription to front free endpaper. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. With special bookmark laid in. This book is heavy and oversized and will require additional postal charges to ship internationally. Please contact us today for an international shipping quote. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Lost in an artthe art of translation. Thus, in an elegant anagram (translation = lost in an art), Pulitzer Prize-winning author and pioneering cognitive scientist Douglas Hofstadter hints at what led him to pen a deep personal homage to the witty sixteenth-century French poet Clément Marot."Le ton beau de Marot" literally means "The sweet tone of Marot", but to a French ear it suggests "Le tombeau de Marot"that is, "The tomb of Marot". That double entendre foreshadows the linguistic exuberance of this book, which was sparked a decade ago when Hofstadter, under the spell of an exquisite French miniature by Marot, got hooked on the challenge of recreating both its sweet message and its tight rhymes in Englishjumping through two tough hoops at once.In the next few years, he not only did many of his own translations of Marot's poem, but also enlisted friends, students, colleagues, family, noted poets, and translatorseven three state-of-the-art translation programs!to try their hand at this subtle challenge.The rich harvest is represented here by 88 wildly diverse variations on Marot's little theme. Yet this barely scratches the surface of Le Ton beau de Marot, for small groups of these poems alternate with chapters that run all over the map of language and thought.Not merely a set of translations of one poem, Le Ton beau de Marot is an autobiographical essay, a love letter to the French language, a series of musings on life, loss, and death, a sweet bouquet of stirring poetrybut most of all, it celebrates the limitless creativity fired by a passion for the music of words.Dozens of literary themes and creations are woven into the picture, including Pushkin's Eugene Onegin, Dante's Inferno, Salinger's Catcher in the Rye, Villon's Ballades, Nabokov's essays, Georges Perec's La Disparition, Vikram Seth's Golden Gate, Horace's odes, and more.Rife with stunning form-content interplay, crammed with creative linguistic experiments yet always crystal-clear, this book is meant not only for lovers of literature, but also for people who wish to be brought into contact with current ideas about how creativity works, and who wish to see how today's computational models of language and thought stack up next to the human mind.Le Ton beau de Marot is a sparkling, personal, and poetic exploration aimed at both the literary and the scientific world, and is sure to provoke great excitement and heated controversy among poets and translators, critics and writers, and those involved in the study of creativity and its elusive wellsprings.(Publisher)., BasicBooks, 1997, 2.5<

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Lost in an art--the art of translation. Thus, in an elegant anagram (translation = lost in an art), Pulitzer Prize-winning author and pioneering cognitive scientist Douglas Hofstadter hints at what led him to pen a deep personal homage to the witty sixteenth-century French poet Clement Marot.""Le ton beau de Marot"" literally means "The sweet tone of Marot," but to a French ear it suggests "Le tombeau de Marot"--that is, "The tomb of Marot." That double entendre foreshadows the linguistic exuberance of this book, which was sparked a decade ago when Hofstadter, under the spell of an exquisite French miniature by Marot, got hooked on the challenge of recreating both its sweet message and its tight rhymes in English--jumping through two tough hoops at once.In the next few years, he not only did many of his own translations of Marot's poem, but also enlisted friends, students, colleagues, family, noted poets, and translators--even three state-of-the-art translation programs --to try their hand at this subtle challenge.The rich harvest is represented here by 88 wildly diverse variations on Marot's little theme. Yet this barely scratches the surface of "Le Ton beau de Marot," for small groups of these poems alternate with chapters that run all over the map of language and thought.Not merely a set of translations of one poem, "Le Ton beau de Marot "is an autobiographical essay, a love letter to the French language, a series of musings on life, loss, and death, a sweet bouquet of stirring poetry--but most of all, it celebrates the limitless creativity fired by a passion for the music of words.Dozens of literary themes and creations are woven into the picture, including Pushkin's" EugeneOnegin," Dante's "Inferno," Salinger's "Catcher in the Rye," Villon's" Ballades, "Nabokov's essays, Georges Perec's "La Disparition," Vikram Seth's "Golden Gate, "Horace's odes, and more.Rife with stunning form-content interplay, crammed with creative linguistic experiments yet always crystal-clear, this book is meant not only for lovers of literature, but also for people who wish to be brought into contact with current ideas about how creativity works, and who wish to see how today's computational models of language and thought stack up next to the human mind."Le Ton beau de Marot "is a sparkling, personal, and poetic exploration aimed at both the literary and the scientific world, and is sure to provoke great excitement and heated controversy among poets and translators, critics and writers, and those involved in the study of creativity and its elusive wellsprings. Media >, [PU: Basic Books]<

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Davidsfonds 2014. Paperback, 207 pag. NL, 250 x 190 mm, in goede staat, veel info en foto's / illustr.in zachte kleuren / z/w. ISBN 9789059085428. Boeken en studies over de Grote Oorlog richten hun blik meestal op de Westhoek en de loopgravenoorlog die daar jarenlang woedde. Maar hoe werd de Eerste Wereldoorlog beleefd in de rest van het land? Dit boek gaat dieper in op het dagelijkse leven tijdens WOI in het bezette gebied. Het focust op de situatie in het Land van Dendermonde, die bij uitbreiding ook gold voor de rest van Vlaanderen. Lees over de chaos van de mobilisatie en de strakke regelgeving van de Duitse bezetter. Op welke manieren verzette de bevolking zich tegen de Duitsers? Waar vonden mensen hoop en geluk in die angstige oorlogstijd? Ontdek hoe de martelaarsstad Dendermonde ingezet werd in de oorlogspropaganda en hoe de wederopbouw verliep na het einde van de oorlog. Aan de hand van zes tegenstellingen - orde en chaos, voor en tegen, angst en hoop, goed en slecht, binnen en buiten, toekomst en verleden - wordt het verhaal van de oorlog in bezet Vlaanderen op een veelzijdige, vernieuwende en genuanceerde manier gebracht. 'Tegen-strijd' vervalt daarmee niet in het stereotiepe zwart-wit denken over WOI , maar laat alle facetten van de Grote Oorlog uitgebreid aan bod komen., Davidsfonds 2014, 0, magazine, minor creases,VG-. Soft Cover., 0, New York: Silver Whistle, 1997. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. This book looks almost new. The interior is crisp and clean, with no marks or signs of use. The illustrated covers are bright, with just a hint of wear at the tips. The dust jacket is not price-clipped, and is also in excellent conditionr. A very nice copy. The jacket is now in a protective mylar cover. Synopsis: A picture book about basketball -- how it feels to roll the ball in our hands. The soaring freedom of the dunker. The fingertip tap. The high, arching moment when all eyes are on the long three-pointer ... " all illustrated by Caldecott Honor artist Stephen T. Johnson., Silver Whistle, 1997, 4, It Books, 1996. trade paperbac. used: good. 84x11x128. Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE NEW boxes Films, Cinema; GOod trade paperback; sticker back cover; tips/edges bumped; crease to cover; spine heal nicked; tanned page edges; clean pages; prompt shipping with tracking., It Books, 1996, 2.5, Dodd, Mead & Co, 1930-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. Dodd, Mead & Company; New York, 1930. Hardcover. A Very Good, tan binding with paper title label on spine, binding intact, bit of sunning to spine, dent bottom front and rear board edge, crease bottom corner Part 1 prelim, some age toning to text block edges and pages, small scuff mark bottom text block edge, top text block edge stained brown, without Dust wrapper. A nice, clean and unmarked copy. 8vo[octavo or approx. 6 x 9], 178pp., indexed, b&w illustrations. We pack securely and ship daily with delivery confirmation on every book. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale. Additional Scan(s) are available for any item, please inquire., Dodd, Mead & Co, 1930-01-01, 3, Atlanta, GA: Turner Publishing, Inc, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Companion book to the film of the same name that followed two high school students in Chicago who dream of being NBA stars. Introduction by Charles Barkley. A very near fine copy in a very near fine dust jacket. Signed and inscribed by Joravsky on the half title page., Turner Publishing, Inc, 1995, 0, New York: BasicBooks, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good +. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. 9 1/2" X 7 1/2". xxiv, 632pp. Light rubbing and creasing to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. LIght rubbing and toning to covers and edges of blue paper over boards. Lean to spine. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Inked gift inscription to front free endpaper. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. With special bookmark laid in. This book is heavy and oversized and will require additional postal charges to ship internationally. Please contact us today for an international shipping quote. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Lost in an artthe art of translation. Thus, in an elegant anagram (translation = lost in an art), Pulitzer Prize-winning author and pioneering cognitive scientist Douglas Hofstadter hints at what led him to pen a deep personal homage to the witty sixteenth-century French poet Clément Marot."Le ton beau de Marot" literally means "The sweet tone of Marot", but to a French ear it suggests "Le tombeau de Marot"that is, "The tomb of Marot". That double entendre foreshadows the linguistic exuberance of this book, which was sparked a decade ago when Hofstadter, under the spell of an exquisite French miniature by Marot, got hooked on the challenge of recreating both its sweet message and its tight rhymes in Englishjumping through two tough hoops at once.In the next few years, he not only did many of his own translations of Marot's poem, but also enlisted friends, students, colleagues, family, noted poets, and translatorseven three state-of-the-art translation programs!to try their hand at this subtle challenge.The rich harvest is represented here by 88 wildly diverse variations on Marot's little theme. Yet this barely scratches the surface of Le Ton beau de Marot, for small groups of these poems alternate with chapters that run all over the map of language and thought.Not merely a set of translations of one poem, Le Ton beau de Marot is an autobiographical essay, a love letter to the French language, a series of musings on life, loss, and death, a sweet bouquet of stirring poetrybut most of all, it celebrates the limitless creativity fired by a passion for the music of words.Dozens of literary themes and creations are woven into the picture, including Pushkin's Eugene Onegin, Dante's Inferno, Salinger's Catcher in the Rye, Villon's Ballades, Nabokov's essays, Georges Perec's La Disparition, Vikram Seth's Golden Gate, Horace's odes, and more.Rife with stunning form-content interplay, crammed with creative linguistic experiments yet always crystal-clear, this book is meant not only for lovers of literature, but also for people who wish to be brought into contact with current ideas about how creativity works, and who wish to see how today's computational models of language and thought stack up next to the human mind.Le Ton beau de Marot is a sparkling, personal, and poetic exploration aimed at both the literary and the scientific world, and is sure to provoke great excitement and heated controversy among poets and translators, critics and writers, and those involved in the study of creativity and its elusive wellsprings.(Publisher)., BasicBooks, 1997, 2.5<

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Lost in an art--the art of translation. Thus, in an elegant anagram (translation = lost in an art), Pulitzer Prize-winning author and pioneering cognitive scientist Douglas Hofstadter hints at what led him to pen a deep personal homage to the witty sixteenth-century French poet Clement Marot.""Le ton beau de Marot"" literally means "The sweet tone of Marot," but to a French ear it suggests "Le tombeau de Marot"--that is, "The tomb of Marot." That double entendre foreshadows the linguistic exuberance of this book, which was sparked a decade ago when Hofstadter, under the spell of an exquisite French miniature by Marot, got hooked on the challenge of recreating both its sweet message and its tight rhymes in English--jumping through two tough hoops at once.In the next few years, he not only did many of his own translations of Marot's poem, but also enlisted friends, students, colleagues, family, noted poets, and translators--even three state-of-the-art translation programs --to try their hand at this subtle challenge.The rich harvest is represented here by 88 wildly diverse variations on Marot's little theme. Yet this barely scratches the surface of "Le Ton beau de Marot," for small groups of these poems alternate with chapters that run all over the map of language and thought.Not merely a set of translations of one poem, "Le Ton beau de Marot "is an autobiographical essay, a love letter to the French language, a series of musings on life, loss, and death, a sweet bouquet of stirring poetry--but most of all, it celebrates the limitless creativity fired by a passion for the music of words.Dozens of literary themes and creations are woven into the picture, including Pushkin's" EugeneOnegin," Dante's "Inferno," Salinger's "Catcher in the Rye," Villon's" Ballades, "Nabokov's essays, Georges Perec's "La Disparition," Vikram Seth's "Golden Gate, "Horace's odes, and more.Rife with stunning form-content interplay, crammed with creative linguistic experiments yet always crystal-clear, this book is meant not only for lovers of literature, but also for people who wish to be brought into contact with current ideas about how creativity works, and who wish to see how today's computational models of language and thought stack up next to the human mind."Le Ton beau de Marot "is a sparkling, personal, and poetic exploration aimed at both the literary and the scientific world, and is sure to provoke great excitement and heated controversy among poets and translators, critics and writers, and those involved in the study of creativity and its elusive wellsprings. Media >, [PU: Basic Books]<

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Le Ton Beau De Marot: The Spark And Sparkle Of Creative Translation

Author:	Hofstadter, Douglas R.
Title:	Le Ton Beau De Marot: The Spark And Sparkle Of Creative Translation
ISBN:	9780465086436

In the fall of 1537, a child was confined to bed for some time. The French poet Clément Marot wrote her a get-well poem, 28 lines long, each line a scant three syllables. In the mid-1980s, the outrageously gifted Douglas R. Hofstadter--il miglior fabbro of Godel, Escher, Bach--first attempted to translate this "sweet, old, small elegant French poem into English." He was later to challenge friends, relations, and colleagues to do the same. The results were exceptional, and are now contained in Le Ton Beau De Marot, a sunny exploration of scholarly and linguistic play and love's infinity. Less sunny, however, is the tragedy that hangs over Hofstadter's book, the sudden death of his wife, Carol, from a brain tumor. (Her translation is among the book's finest.)

Marot's poem, in Hofstadter's initial translation (he is to compose many more), begins: "My sweet, / I bid you / A good day; / The stay / Is prison. / Health / Recover, / Then open / Your door ... "--a slim frame on which to hang 600 or so pages of text. But the book is far more than a compendium of translators' triumphs (with the occasional misstep). Most of the renderings are original and lively, some lovely, though Hofstadter often feels compelled to improve them. He lightly laments that Bill Cavnar's rendering, "though superb along so many dimensions at once, still seems to lack a bit of that intangible verbal sparkle that I associate with the deepest Maroticity."

Hofstadter's talents lie in linking his intoxication, erudition, and vision with humor, autobiography, and free association. His book takes on "rigidists," asks questions like, "Is plagiarism potentially creative?" and strives to define linguistic soul. Along the way, it accords the same level of respect to the seemingly trivial: sex jokes, Texas jokes, The Seven Year Itch, and the puzzle of how someone you love can hate a food that you adore. Throughout there is pun, ingenuity, and above all, love for language--which can compress distance and, through constraint, lead to freedom.

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